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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Dear OSGeo Board,<BR><BR>With great regret, the
FOSS4G Beijing Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has made the difficult decision
of cancelling the event due to a lack of financial resources and the unexpected
withdrawal of the Professional Conference Organizer. Please
officially approve our decision and advise any procedures we may need to follow
to minimize the impact on the community.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">We also wrote letter for FOSS4G Beijing 2012
potential participants, we will publish this announcement on the foss4g2012
website and e-mail them after we get feedback from Board.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">******************************<WBR>********<BR>Dear
Participants of FOSS4G Beijing 2012,<BR><BR>With great regret, the FOSS4G
Beijing Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has<BR>made the difficult decision of
cancelling the event due to a lack of<BR>financial resources and the unexpected
withdrawal of the Professional<BR>Conference Organizer. We sincerely apologize
for any inconvenience this has<BR>caused.<BR><BR>For those interested in FOSS4G
events, the LOC suggests consider:<BR>
<DIV class=im><BR> * FOSS4G 2013, to be held in Nottingham, United
Kingdom, 2013<BR></DIV> * The Asian Geospatial Forum, September 2012,
Hanoi, Vietnam, which will<BR>
<DIV class=im>have an OSGeo session. <A
href="http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/"
target=_blank>http://www.<WBR>asiageospatialforum.org/</A><BR><BR></DIV>Thank
you for your patience and support!<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>FOSS4G Beijing
2012 LOC<BR>******************************<WBR>*******<BR><BR>Best
regards,</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>FOSS4G Beijing 2012 LOC</SPAN></DIV>
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